I am learning all sorts of new things about the romance genre, I obviously have been reading the wrong books! Any suggestions for a newbie romance author to get a 'feel' for the genre.
What subgenre do you want to write? Contemporary? Historical? Fantasy? Erotica? Inspie?
If you haven't decided, you might get a list of the RWA's RITA finalists for the past few years. That will give you an idea of what other writers admire, at least in more or less mainstream romance.
My favorite romance genre to read is historical. But what I write is definitely more paranormal- fantasy material.
I had to go back and look through my romance books, I had never even noticed the scene break thing- read right on past them, apparently they were done so well I did not even notice them- as they did not distract my focus from the story in the least.
So I am looking for some good Paranormal/Fantasy/Romance books that will help me get a feel of how they present the POV's of the characters and keep the story line flowing - I head hop
Thank you- I hope you are feeling better todayNot sure what POV you're But how do we as people know what others are "thinking" since we aren't mindreaders? Their body language. So use either body language or dialogue to show the other characters' side of things.
Hope this makes sense. I am not feeling well and my brain is a bit foggy so I may have come across as rambling.
Trying to work from a close 3rd person POV, I have a bad habit of switching back and forth for exampleMy rule of thumb is 1 POV shift per character per scene at the maximum (I usually go through an entire scene without shifting POVs)
For hotter stuff, Kresley Cole is really good as well
Trying to work from a close 3rd person POV, I have a bad habit of switching back and forth for example
Start out in Hero POV
several lines of dialogue between hero and heroine
then I will switch the Heroines "thoughts" about the conversation.
Bad habit, I want the reader to
know what both of them are thinking and feeling, need to learn how to do more showing and less telling. I am searching for some good examples of writers that 'show' both pov in one scene.
We remain in the MMC's POV the whole time, but we also know what the FMC is thinking. We know her attitudes and thoughts because of the way she acts and speaks and because our MMC POV character keeps up a running internal commentary of what's going on inside the FMC's head and why.
The romance novels I have on hand to look through all seem to pretty much stay within the POV of the heroine throughout the entire book, and they do not really provide much insight to the other characters.
... Tristan and Iseult. None better.
I recently discovered Kristen Callihan's books. Her Darkest London series is both historical and paranormal.
I recently discovered Kristen Callihan's books. Her Darkest London series is both historical and paranormal.
Tristan and Iseult is a beautiful story, but it's medieval tragedy, not genre romance.